Following family tradition he received a commission with the Preobrazhensky Regiment, the foremost regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard.

* Preobrazhensky regiment, one of the oldest regiments of the Russian army

Both his father and grandfather had served in the Russian military as officers in the elite Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment.

Born in St. Petersburg to the family of a sergeant in the Preobrazhensky Guards regiment, Martynov graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Art in 1788.

In 1906 he was transferred to the Preobrazhensky Regiment, an elite guards regiment.

The first Rumyantsev to gain prominence, Alexander Ivanovich ( 1680 – 1749 ), served as ordinary of Peter the Great in the Preobrazhensky regiment.

The regimental bands, particularly of the high prestige units such as the guards had as many as 32 ( in the Preobrazhensky regiment ) or more fifers.

On January 15, 1882, his brother Alexander III appointed him Commander of the 1st Battalion Preobrazhensky Life Guard Regiment, the elite regiment, founded by Peter the Great, with the rank of Colonel.

He had left written instructions that he was to be buried in the Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment uniform, but as his body was so badly mutilated this proved impossible.

* 1687-Droll regiments become the Semenovsky regiment and Preobrazhensky regiments of the regular army.

* 1700-Before the Battle of Narva is officially named Leib-Guard Preobrazhensky regiment.

* 1706-Tsar Peter the Great adopts the military rank of Colonel of Preobrazhensky regiment.

* 1722-According to Russian Table of Ranks soldiers of Preobrazhensky regiment were to be considered two ranks higher than in ordinary units.

* 1726-Moscow company of Preobrazhensky regiment becomes a separate Moscow leib-guard battalion and later Murom leib-guard battalion.

* 1796-Battalions of the Preobrazhensky regiment are named according to their chiefs: 1st battalion-His Majesty, 2nd battalion-Lieutenant-General Tatischev, 3d Battalion-General Field-Marshal Suvorov, Grenadier Battalion-Major-General Arakcheev.

This colour was given to the Regiment in order to celebrate its action at Kulm, where the outnumbered Preobrazhensky regiment withstood the charge of French troops.

Naum Senyavin began his military career as a soldier of the Preobrazhensky regiment in 1698.

Preobrazhensky ( pictured ) was a leading figure of the Central Committee in the 1920s, but was killed during the Purge

At the age of fourteen, Vorontsov was appointed a kammerjunker at the court of the tsesarevna Yelizaveta Petrovna, whom he materially assisted during the famous coup d ' etat of December 6, 1741, when she mounted the Russian throne on the shoulders of the Preobrazhensky Grenadiers.

The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment ( Марш Преображенского полка ) is a very famous Russian march, written in the time of Peter the Great.

During the Civil War period, he published several theoretical economic works, including the popular primer The ABC of Communism ( with Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, 1919 ), and the more academic Economics of the Transitional Period ( 1920 ) and Historical Materialism ( 1921 ).

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

However, its basic theses can be found in such popular outlines of Communist theory as The ABC's of Communism, which sought to explain the program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, by Yevgeni Preobrazhensky and Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ).

* Yevgeni Preobrazhensky ( 1886 – 1937 ), the economic theoretician of the Left Opposition, the author of The New Economics.

Marxists he admired – apart from Marx himself – were Rosa Luxemburg and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky.

There are also religious buildings on the monastery's grounds ( the principal ones are interconnected with roofed and arched passages ), surrounded by multiple household buildings and living quarters, including a refectory ( a 500 m² chamber ) with the Uspensky Cathedral ( built in 1552-1557 ), Preobrazhensky Cathedral ( 1556 – 1564 ), Church of Annunciation ( 1596 – 1601 ), stone chambers ( 1615 ), watermill ( early 17th century ), bell tower ( 1777 ), and Church of Nicholas ( 1834 ).

For instance, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky and Georgy Pyatakov were all rehabilitated.

On 10 July 1929, Radek alongside other oppositionists Ivar Smilga and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, signed a document capitulating to Stalin., with Radek being held in particular disdain by oppositionist circles for his betrayal of Yakov Blumkin, who had been carrying a secret letter from Trotsky, in exile in Turkey, to Radek.

He authored Imperialism and World Economy ( 1918 ), The ABC of Communism ( 1919. co-authored with Yevgeni Preobrazhensky ), and Historical Materialism ( 1921 ) among others.

The guards repaid her kindness when on the night of 25 November 1741, Elizabeth seized power with the help of the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

Sitting: Leonid Serebryakov, Karl Radek, Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Boguslavsky, and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky.

Young Mussorgsky as a cadet in the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guard.

In 1900, 200 years after the battle of Narva, the Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky regiments initiated the construction of a memorial to the Russian soldiers who had fallen in the battle of Narva.

The Preobrazhensky and Izmailovsky regiments of Imperial Guards replaced the strel ' tsy as the tsar's bodyguards.

The Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments of Imperial Guards replaced the streltsy as the tsar's bodyguards.

In such a situation, in May 1922, Tikhon commissioned Archbishop Agathangel ( Preobrazhensky ) of Yaroslavl to carry out patriarchal duties.

Equestrian portrait of Catherine in the Preobrazhensky Regiment's uniform.

In March 1774 he became Lieutenant-Colonel in the Preobrazhensky Guards, a post previously held by Alexei Orlov.

Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky () ( 3 February 188613 July 1937 ) was an Old Bolshevik, an economist and a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and, its successor, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Preobrazhensky (), Preobrazhenskaya ( feminine ), or Preobrazhenskoye ( neuter ), lit.

During this time period, the regent disregarded the young tsar, letting him train his Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky Guards in Preobrazhenskoe.